MoCoNo anyone?
In the literary space, a possible trendsetting experiment of collaborative novel writing has been launched jointly by Penguin and De Montfort University. (News article) The experiment which will run for six weeks will lead to the novel ‘A Million Penguins’. It is based principles of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia; anyone can join in to write or edit without getting credit for words, characters, plot-twist or story. A Penguin editor will blog about the experiment, giving running commentary on the progress of the story, suggesting changes and possible directions it could take.
Why not include a mobile component to increase the collaborators’ number and enhance flexibility in terms of connectivity for contributing to the process. Next time local Penguin publishers in various countries can tie up with telcos to provision mobile collaboration along with online efforts.  Or maybe we will soon have an exclusively mobile collaborative novel. How would it be named - Mobile Collaborative Novel- MoCoNo?
5. February 2007 at 1:49 pm :
thats INNOVATIVE. has someone done it?
the mobile content i have seen so far is very teeny booper in its taste!
6. February 2007 at 10:33 am :
As a matter of fact, sms based short stories are coming up shortly… watch this space!